Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to… — Harold Evans Copy Share
[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll see newspapers survive, being printed at home... Or you’ll have a local print shop, so that rather than waiting for the newspapers to arrive by truck, which is 30 percent at least of a newspaper’s cost, you’ll go… — Harold Evans Copy Share
“Here’s a sampling I made from the usual suspects (print, TV, radio, magazines). Zombies on the left, purgatives on the right, word counts in parentheses. Accommodation The theater has seating accommodation for 600. (7) The theater seats 600. (4) Activity They enjoyed recreational activity. (4) They liked games. (3) The king agreed to limited exploration activity. (7) The king agreed… — Harold Evans Copy Share
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“The grossest offenders are in the field of, in connection with, in order to, in respect of, so far as… is concerned. All sorts of things are found flourishing in the field of: in the field of public relations, in the field of breakfast cereals, in the field of book publishing, in the field of railway management, in the field… — Harold Evans Copy Share
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.” — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me -… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The prepositions add… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
![“If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.” quote by Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/17f/harold-evans-15687_calibration_if-i-want-to-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-r_193195.jpg)
